POP CULTURE/ENTERTAINMENT WRITING

Abrams Books/Amazon Studios/TCO Printworks

• “Midge & the Midtown Entertainment Scene,” The Magnificent, Magical, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel authorized companion commemorative coffee table book, 2023 (publishing to the general public on October 15, 2024)

  • a closer look at how Midtown Manhattan hotspots like Toots Shor’s and Jewish delis provided more accessible showbiz networking spaces for women and PoC entertainers in the mid-century

Bright Wall/Dark Room

• “Can You See?”: Navigating the Murky, Powerful Waters of the Female Psyche in Minority Report

• The Hard is What Makes It Great: For Love of Sisterhood, the Game, and Women’s Work in A League of Their Own

• A Crisis of Confidence: An Unmarried Woman, 20th Century Women, Freaks & Geeks and the Malaise of Being an American Woman During the Carter Era

Consequence of Sound

• Meryl Streep Proves to Be a Perfect Fit for Big Little Lies in Season Two

• Drop Dead Gorgeous Embraced Weird Humor Before Weird Went Mainstream

• James Cameron: Man or Machine?

• Ed Wood and the Highs and Lows of Creative Collaboration

• Gone With the Wind Prepared Hollywood for Star Wars

• With Greenberg, Ben Stiller Now Takes Backseat to Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s Meet-Cute 10 Years Later

• Ghost at 30: Patrick Swayze’s 1990 Blockbuster Defied Genre to Live Forever

• Center Stage Gave Us Zoe Saldana, Mandy Moore, and the Dance Film of a Generation

• Lady Gaga Doesn’t Need Pop (Pop Needs Lady Gaga)

• Lady Gaga’s “911” Video: Every Outfit Ranked

• Ranking Every Martin Scorsese Film From Worst to Best

CultureSonar

• Fleeting Glimpses of the Real North Korea in Under the Sun

• With Crack-Up, Fleet Foxes Venture Into New Sonic Landscapes

• Gaga: Five Foot Two – The Pain Behind the Fame

• You’ll Never Go Wrong With a Penny Marshall Movie

• The Women of Rubber Soul

• Greta Gerwig Triumphantly Spreads Her Wings with Lady Bird

• The 10 Best Stevie Nicks Songs (Not With Fleetwood Mac)

• The Best of Carly Simon, My Mom, and Me

• Musicals on TV: So Far, So Good

• Here We Go Again: The Year of ABBA

• Joan Baez: A Voice for Every Generation

• Bat Out of Hell: The Musical: All Revved-Up and Undeniably Fun

Crooked Marquee

• Mona Lisa Smile, Dead Poets Society, and The Subtle Sexism of How We View Movies

The Film Stage

• A Closer Look: Connection, Empathy, and Hope in the Films of Agnès Varda

Girls On Tops

• Body of Work: On Sigourney Weaver and Being Tall

IFC

• A Complete Ranking of Every Alien Film

• 10 Crazy Facts You Might Not Know About Jaws

• 10 Paranoid Conspiracy Thrillers Worth Investigating

• The 10 Strangest Conspiracy Theories About The Shining

COMEDY/SATIRE WRITING

The Belladonna Comedy

• I Went on Vacation and All I Got Were Your Frantic Pleas for My Return by Barack H. Obama

• Seeking Man to Be My +1 on the Ark — w4m 4ark, 28 (Manhattan)

• Daily Itinerary: An Average Day on Planet Earth According to Tilda Swinton

• Excerpt of a new feminist play by a Distinguished White Male Playwright

• A Valentine’s Day Memo to the Pussy Posse from Its President, Leonardo DiCaprio

• I’m Living as a 1950s Housewife But It’s Not JUST to Escape Examining My White Privilege